silent farm

Chapter 56: Seeing Things Like a Farmer
On the newly developed land in the hilly area, the relatively flat areas that can be operated by machinery are planned by him to be reclaimed as farmland, which is intended to be used to grow oil crops, wheat and corn.These cultivated lands are not all contiguous, they are divided into five or six pieces, the total area accounts for about 20% of the area.

Some hills are planted with some tropical fruits and other cash crops.He even planted a lot of Brazil chestnuts - saplings grown from the seeds of Brazil chestnuts collected in the jungle.and some special bamboo.

On this land he built a real villa, as well as some workers' houses.The living area has football fields, basketball courts, badminton courts, tennis courts, volleyball courts, swimming pools, a gymnasium and a 21-hole golf course.There is even an airport with a runway over 500 meters long.

But this hill is still vacant with one or two hundred square kilometers of land.He felt that everything that should be planted in the space had already been taken out.

Various fruits, food crops, vegetables and economic crops have been planted on a large area.In the future, the hills that now look bare will soon be covered with greenery, tea plantations, fruit trees, coffee plantations, cocoa plantations, and the only Brazilian chestnut forest in the world.

Horses, cattle, deer, musk deer, fish, shrimp and shellfish, he took a small amount out of the space and stocked them.There are also some special breeding species, such as white jade snails that can grow to a weight of one and a half catties, which can be used as special breeding.

For another example, he specially built a board room to grow mushrooms.

He really couldn't think of anything else worth taking advantage of.

Speaking of which, there are not many mineral resources in space.But it's not particularly rich, and he really doesn't have much interest in mining it.For example, in the space he knows that there is a primary gold mine with a high gold content.

But that's not his thing.He cannot mine.After he fished out the gold sand in the previous Jinsha River, he never thought about making gold in it.The same is true for emeralds.Since there are so many emeralds at the bottom of the lake, there must be some emerald mine.But he didn't even look for it, there was enough at the bottom of the lake.In his opinion, the biggest benefit of that space is the biological resources inside, and in his real world, he happens to own a large piece of land.

The original workers called their friends and friends, but the number of workers on the farm has increased from less than 100 to more than 200 now, and more than 130 of them are Chinese.Most of the rest are nearby Brazilian residents—mostly Aurihimina villagers.Most of these workers are mainly concentrated in grazing and farming areas.Elsewhere, large numbers of workers are only needed at certain times.

The salaries, insurance, etc. of these workers need to spend tens of millions of reais every year, which is a lot of pressure.

This major transformation of land reclamation and road construction cost Li Sheng hundreds of millions of dollars.Although his current funds are not as abundant as before, they are still very rich.At least not without debt.

What's more, Ali has paid one billion US dollars in the past, and the remaining nearly 20 billion US dollars will be paid within a year.So it is impossible for him to be short of money in the near future.

For the time being, Li Sheng couldn't think of what to plant on the remaining hillside, so he walked back with Chaxi on his back.

After walking for several kilometers, we came to the concrete road, which is the newly repaired road.The road is not very wide, and there is still some room for two trucks to drive side by side.

His car was parked on the side of the road.This car is not a luxury car, just a pickup truck.He opened the door, and the wild cat got in first, and then he put Chashi in the back seat and fastened his seat belt.

He was about to close the car door when the sound of an airplane came from the sky.

Chaxi clumsily unbuckled her seat belt and stared at the sky with the car door open: "Is Daddy back?"

Li Sheng was not sure either.Airplanes are a very common means of transportation in the rainforest.Many large ranchers have small aircraft.He looked up for a while, and found that the plane was slowly lowering its altitude. It should be Thomas and the others coming back.

He smiled and pushed the little thing back on the seat, helped her fasten the seat belt again and said, "It's your daddy who's back, sit down quickly, and we'll go back right away."

Li Sheng's car arrived at the office in Pingyuan District half an hour later.He walked into the office with Chaxi in his arms. Thomas and Anthony were there, as was Zhang Feng.They were talking about airdrops from planes.

Li Sheng smiled and asked them, "It's going well."

"The weather was great. The airdrop was very accurate," Thomas said with a smile. "Of course, Anthony's flying skills are the most important factor."

The indigenous tribe was in the middle of the dense forest, and the gap between the tree crowns was probably less than 20 meters. It was really not easy for them to accurately airdrop to the small skylight.

"After the airdrop was over, we hovered in the sky for a while before those people took the supplies. I think they should be preparing to enjoy those things now." Anthony has more than half of Indian blood, and his appearance also has many Indian characteristics, such as Black hair, black eyes.And he is also psychologically inclined to the Indians.He seemed quite happy to help other Indians now.

Seeing Anthony, Chahi started to yawn, and fell asleep in Anthony's arms.Anthony smiled and said, "Lee, thank you for taking care of Chashi."

Li Sheng joked, "Anthony, you're welcome. In fact, I always regret not adopting her before you."

"Haha, it's too late for you to regret it."

Li Sheng laughed and said, "I'm trying to win her over."

After joking, Li Sheng asked Zhang Feng: "Old Zhang, there is still a piece of land in the hilly area. I can't think of what to plant. Do you have any suggestions?"

Lao Zhang shook his head and said, "I can't think of it either. There are more types of crops planted on the farm now than I have seen in several farms combined."

Although he is a farmer, farmers don't know everything about agriculture.

Li Sheng pondered for a while, and said, "I remember that Brazilians also use a lot of herbs. Can we grow some herbs?"

"Lee, I don't think that's a good idea. Brazilians use less and less herbs now. And the herbs they need can be fully satisfied in the jungle." Thomas reminded.

When Li Sheng thought about it, that was indeed the case.The main people who use herbal medicine are Indians or the descendants of the older generation of immigrants. Today's young people trust Western medicine more.

Since he couldn't think of it, Li Sheng put the matter aside for the time being.He asked Zhang Feng again: "How is the green manure reserve?"

"It will definitely be able to meet the needs of rice planting before the rainy season. The hilly area will start later and there may be some gaps."

Li Sheng gave a "hmm" and said after a long time: "The workers in charge of manure accumulation are allocated to hilly areas. After the rainy season starts, the fertility of those lands will decline faster."

"Okay." Zhang Feng nodded and wrote the matter down in his notebook.

"How is the work on the paddy fields done?"

"[-] acres have been plowed and are currently being soaked in water. The remaining [-] acres can be plowed within five days. As long as the rainy season is not too early, the rice transplanting can be completed before the rainy season begins."

Li Sheng nodded and said, "The work of accumulating fertilizer needs to improve some efficiency. Starting from this year, rice fields can be planted twice a year, and the fertility must keep up."

In the tropical rain forest, there is a lot of rain, the temperature is high, and the humus is easy to decompose. The acidity of the land is relatively high. He hopes to solve this problem through green manure.Green manure can not only make up for the loss of nutrients in paddy fields, but also has a certain effect of neutralizing acidity because of the addition of some lime.

That was a plan that had already been made, and Zhang Feng was also very concerned about this matter.He is a farmer and knows that if the acidity of the soil is high, it is easy to induce rice blast.So those green manures are indispensable at least in the first few years.

"I will keep an eye on this matter." Zhang Feng paused and said. "By the way, boss. Ding Jiaqiang is currently experimenting with a relatively new breeding model."

When Li Sheng heard this, he was a little curious.

Ding Jiaqiang is a comrade-in-arms recruited by Zhang Dingbian.It is the one who has raised pigs in the army for more than ten years.Now I am in charge of pig breeding.The location of the pig farm is relatively marginal.It can be said to be relatively remote.So after Li Sheng met the other party once, he never met the other party.This shows that the other party is a responsible person, while Li Sheng is just the opposite.

However, what good idea does this person have?
I only heard Zhang Feng say: "He discovered a strange phenomenon. Pigs like to eat the leaf stalks left by sweet elephant grass eaten by snails very much. So he did an experiment, some pigs used the stalks eaten by snails The sweet elephants were fed with grass, one batch was fed with directly harvested pigs, and the last batch was still fed with the previous feed. Other conditions were as consistent as possible. After a month of breeding, the pigs that had eaten the snails had more growth than the other batch. They weighed more than 20 catties more. And those fed sweet elephant grass gained an average of six catties more than those fed the previous feed."

Li Sheng didn't know there was such a thing yet: "Then how does he plan to do the experiment?"

"He made a report and planned to do an experiment. He planned to form a breeding model of a circular biological chain system such as sweet elephant grass, snails, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, and fish." Zhang Feng said and took out a copy of more than 20 A4 paper. "I took a look and thought it was good. But I don't know much about these."

Li Sheng flipped through the documents and said with a smile, "Then leave the professional work to a professional. Let him do it freely."

He is now wondering whether the snails taken out of space have any special ability to promote the growth of animals.

(End of this chapter)